Empower!
I, and others like myself, have spent the past couple of years talking with our GenZ and Millennials about high demand, high paying careers, and the smart ways to get them. So, many of our young people have listened and the enrollment in skilled trades, computer science, construction, medical and agricultural fields is increasing. But how do we keep them here, in the Great Lakes Bay Region, to do this work . . . Empower through education!
- We need to continue to point out the beauty and bounty of the area.
- We need to help them with knowledge about calculating and comparing the cost of living. It often looks like salaries are lower compared with cities such as San Francisco, Phoenix, Chicago, and Boston but their money goes farther here than it does it many locations across the country that get high propaganda as "desirable" to live.
- We need to continue to encourage businesses to work politically to reduce health care costs, housing costs and quality, and child care availability.
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